SAMANTHA ENSLIN-PAYNE: For far too many, leaving school leads nowhere
The end of the year is rushing towards us. In just over a week hundreds of thousands of matrics will sit down to begin their final school exams. For some there is a university place already almost sewn up and the prospect of great opportunities that come with tertiary education: not only because a degree vastly improves the chance of ultimately finding well-paid work but also because university gives young people the scope to really broaden their horizons. For many there is no such hope - just the rush of relief that will come when school will be done with and the torment that came with those many years is finally over. Not only the struggle to learn in underresourced and ill-equipped schools, but the threat of violence and actual violence that so many pupils endure. The images of Grade 1 pupils crying as they are hauled into school for the first time - common images at the start of each school year - send chills down my spine. No child should be so terrified of a learning environme...
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